Readers of VA-HIST might be interested in a review of two recent works on African American participation in the Civil War and the connection to Emancipation:
Glenn David Brasher. The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans and the Fight for Freedom. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Ronald S. Coddington. African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
The review can be found at: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39924
John
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